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If you’re a customer of ours you should have already received an e-mail with instructions on how to update products such as Mentor Embedded Linux and the Automotive Technology Platfrom that include OpenSLL, and in some cases versions of OpenSLL with the Hearbleed bug and vulnerability.
Logo representing Heartbleed from security company Codenomicon.
If you’re not an active customer of Mentor Embedded … Read More

Today we have a guest-blogger appearance. Phil Brumby is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for our Runtime Solutions team and manages the technical and engineering developments for development for our graphics and user interface products. He led a web seminar a few weeks ago titled “Create Compelling User Interfaces for Embedded with Qt Framework” and received more questions than he … Read More

As part of the Mentor Embedded team I’m excited to finally share that we’re partnering with AMD Embedded to provide open-source embedded Linux development for heterogeneous and multi-core processors from AMD. Last year in September AMD shared details about its embedded product roadmap; this provided a great deal of insight into the commitment and growing investment AMD is making into embedded systems … Read More

Next week from Tuesday, April 8th through Friday, April 11th we’ll be joining many of our embedded developer colleagues at Freescale Techology Forum in Dallas, TX. Before you spend a few hours at the Dallas Arboretum, stop by the Mentor Embedded booth to learn how to solve the challenges of secure connectivity for Automotive, Industrial, Medical and Smart Energy to integrate them into the Internet … Read More

Like most of you we’ll be in San Jose the first week in April to attend the EE Live! Conference and Expo. Before visiting the Lick Astronomical Observatory, stop by our booth (#1812) to learn about connected smart meters, Internet of Things (IoT) medical devices, and power management.
We’ll be presenting the following demonstrations at the booth all week:
Connectivity with bluetooth for … Read More

Citius, Altius, Fortius
Faster, Higher, Stronger – the Olympic motto could just as easily be applied to the expectations driving the alarming rate of evolution of embedded hardware. In the form of today’s mobile devices, we now hold more processing power than high-end PCs of yesteryears! A single mobile device has replaced the functionality of a myriad of discrete devices: GPS, camera, pager, voice … Read More

I have been to Embedded World in Nuremberg for the past 5 years, and this was the busiest I have seen it. New themes such as IoT (Internet of Things) were very evident, and it was clear that many software and hardware suppliers attending Embedded World are building their market strategies around these themes. In reality though, engineers want the detail. How does it actually work, what do I … Read More

At Embedded World in Nuremberg from Feb 25-27 we will have a number of demos to show off at the Mentor Embedded Booth. Come join us in Hall 4, Booth 4-422 to see and learn more about:
Delivering Powerful IoT Systems
Connected devices range from wearables, to smart meters, to smart appliances, to connected vehicles. Design of these IoT devices requires minimizing memory footprint, seamlessly connecting … Read More

Are you attending Embedded World in Nuremberg this year? Before you take a walking tour of Old Town, be sure to stop by the Mentor Embedded booth at Hall 4/4-422. We have presentations by Colin Walls & Andrew Patterson focusing on interprocessor communications & automotive:
Challenges in Automotive Connectivity: Devices, Technologies, and the Connected Car, by Andrew Patterson, 09:30
If the … Read More

If you are attending Embedded World in Nuremberg later this month, before you snack on too much lebkuchen be sure to stop by the Mentor Embedded booth at Hall 4/4-422 to see a few key presentations on:
Linux Fast Boot
AUTOSAR
HMIs
Linux-Based Automotive
Pre-Silicon Development
Analyzing UI Problems
See below for more details:
Linux Fast Boot: Techniques for Aggressive Boot Time Reduction – … Read More

Complexity never, in itself, impresses me. I am impressed people’s ability to understand complex ideas and create complex machines, but a truly elegant and simple solution is always what gives me most pleasure. This might beg the question as to why I work in software – a business well known for creating incredibly complex things. I often ask myself the same question.
Systems where there … Read More

Mentor Graphics’ Embedded Software division has released a new version of its Automotive Technology Platform (ATP) for developing Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems.
Embedded division general manager Glenn Perry notes that the new release has achieved GENIVI 5.0-compliance with leading IVI systems-on-chips (SoCs) such as Freescale’s i.MX6, Texas Instruments’ OMAP5 and Renesas’ Marzen … Read More

A majority of embedded devices nowadays are implemented using an operating system of some kind. This has not always been the case and need not be today. Historically, using an OS was less common mainly because the applications were less complex and CPUs less powerful.
Some thought is needed, at an early stage in a project, to determine which OS to use [or whether to use one at all] …
This all … Read More

In the light of recent announcement of Mentor Embedded Hypervisor and discussions about embedded hypervisor technology, I am pleased to have another opportunity to host the ramblings [his word] of my colleague Faheem Sheikh. I would question his implying that it is easy to make a perfect cheese omelette from a recipe …
An oft-cited analogy for software working out-of-the-box (OOTB) is that of … Read More

At Tokyo Embedded Tradeshow last week, the Mentor ESD team was very busy as we had many medical customers stopping by our booth to find out how Mentor Embedded Hypervisor can help them to address regulatory and ethical issues with protecting sensitive patient information and industrial customers to make industrial equipment secure and more reliable.
The explosion in medical devices is due in part to … Read More